CMA Spring Recital info

UWA Campus Carol Merrill Academy Dance & Tumble Recital!

We are so excited about our second annual Carol Merrill Academy UWA dance and tumble recital. Our recital is Sunday, May 4^th, 2014. The recital will be performed at 3:00 P.M. at Bibb Graves. Each girl student will perform 2 routines, a Ballet routine and a tumbling routine. Boy students will only perform a tumbling routine.

Each girl will receive a ballet costume, headpiece for this costume and any other accessories needed for the ballet routine. They will also receive a tumble costume, headpiece for this costume and any accessories needed for the tumble routine. You will need to supply ballet pink tights and ballet shoes for the ballet routine. The girls will perform the tumble routine barefoot so make sure the tights are transition tights. The girls may wear small rhinestone earring. A picture of the costumes will follow. This picture will have details on how the hair should be worn.

A non refundable down payment of $75 is due Wednesday, March 19^th, for the girls and $25 for the boys. The remaining balance due on all costume orders is Wednesday, April 9^th.  We won’t know the remainder of the balance until the order is placed.

Carol Merrill Academy policy states that we cannot order a student any costumes without a down payment and student will not receive their costumes until the balance is paid in full.

Carol Merrill Academy policy states that we cannot order a student any costumes who has an outstanding balance due on their tuition account. You tuition account must be current. If you turn in a $75 payment and you have a balance due on your tuition account, this $75 payment will not be applied to your costume down payment, it will be applied to your tuition account.

Participating in a recital is a very rewarding and an exciting dance and tumble experience. The students work hard all year and this is their chance to “Show Off” the skills for family and friends.

This recital is optional. Students at the UWA Campus School that are a part of the Carol Merrill Academy dance and tumble program are not required to participate.

If you choose not to participate, please send an email to cmerrillacademy@comcast.net by 5:00 on Friday, March 7.

We will follow a little different schedule for the next couple of weeks until the recital. Spring break is different in Mississippi and we will have to adjust the schedule for the instructors. It will be as follows:

v Thursday- March 6

v Wednesday- March 19

v Wednesday- April 2

v Wednesday- April 9

v Wednesday- April 16

v Thursday- April 24

v Recital week!!!  Wednesday- April 30

v Thursday- May 1- Practice on stage

v Friday-May 2- Dress Rehearsal-6:00 at Bibb Graves- (recital students only) Mom’s will need to be present to dress students. No other outside visitors. The rehearsal will be a closed rehearsal.

v Sunday- May 4- Recital- 3:00 Bibb Graves- Please arrive by 2:00 if you are dressing and applying make-up and hair at the auditorium. Arrive by 2:30 if you are arriving dressed.

If you have any questions please feel free to email me, cmerrillacademy@comcast.net  I do not check my email every day, but I will get back to you ASAP!!!

next week

Monday, March 3	Tuesday, March 4	Wednesday, March 5	Thursday, March 6	Friday, March 7
Read Across America Day /Pajama Day	Campus School Steering Committee Meeting	Gymnastics and Dance Ms. Jimeka’s Bday Teacher PD 1:30-2:30	Pizza Day Music	Maddox’s Bday

Thursday's snapshot

we practiced writing X's in our shamrock salt tray this morning.

and had fun playing a St. Patrick's Day Roll and Graph game.

we enjoyed learning some different math games today. and our teachers were Ms. Brittany's kindergarten students! Kinsley and Cooper taught us how to play the Egg Carton Pom Pom Adding game. the egg carton has numbers 0-9 written in each space. the student closes the carton and shakes. then the carton is opened and the two numbers marked by the pom poms are recorded on the data sheet. tokens/chips are then used to add the two numbers together and the answer is recorded. lots of fun!

Bailey taught us how to play Plus One as well. the students took turns rolling a die. each time it was rolled, the students added one more to the number rolled and then that many spaces are covered. the player to cover all their spaces first, wins!

thank you to the grandparents and other family members that came for Grandparent's Day!

in limited centers, we had fun counting leprechaun coins...

and exploring the March sensory tub...

and found and cut out Xx words in magazines.

Wednesday's snapshot

we fingerpainted Xx today :)

and also finished learning how to play the Leprechaun Coin counting game.

we concluded our frozen pipe experiment today, as well.

the students found first-hand that once the water freezes, the pipe no longer works.

they also noticed that the cup began to burst because of the ice and then realized once it began to thaw out there would be a big mess! we will be observing our tanks and pipes to see how they work once the water has thawed.

we started a new chapter book during quiet time today.

"To the Gregg family, hunting is just plain fun. To the girl who lives next door, it's just plain horrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talk them out of it, but the Greggs only laugh at her. Then one day the Greggs go too far, and the little girl turns her Magic Finger on them. When she's very, very angry, the little girl's Magic Finger takes over. She really can’t control it, and now it's turned the Greggs into birds! Before they know it, the Greggs are living in a nest, and that's just the beginning of their problems…."
@ Amazon

Mr. Luis visited us again today for our Spanish lesson. The students reviewed how to say My name is _________ and learned how to say animal names in Spanish and played Simon Says.

Kairi's birthday is tomorrow but she won't be here to celebrate it with us :( so we celebrated today!

in limited centers the students wrote in their journals about our science experiment...

and we worked on upper and lowercase recognition using fun, messy stamps :)